What is the rarest Australian 50 cent coin?
The 50 cent ‘millennium’ coin is one of the hardest errors to spot and is also known as the ‘incuse flag millennium’ coin. The mistake affects the Cross of St. Andrew on the Union Jack which is sunk into the coin rather than raised in the widely circulated version.
What Australian 50 cent coins are valuable?
Anyway, back onto the circulation issues. Truly uncirculated 50 cent coins from 1969 (cv $25), 1971 ($25), 1972 ($55), 1973 ($60), 1974 ($35), 1985 ($13), 1993 ($22) , and 1997 ($30) are all worth more than any commemorative 50c coin.
How big is the Australian 50 cent coin?
The reverse of the 50 cent coin features the Australian Coat of Arms. Designed by Stuart Devlin, it has had some important changes made to it since 1966. The original 50 cent coin was made of 80% silver and 20% copper. It was circular in shape, and had a milled edge. It weighed 13.28 grams and was 31.65 millimetres in diameter.
What kind of animals are on Australian coins?
The feathertail glider (type of possum), the Chlamydosaurus (Frilled-neck lizard), the Echidna, the Lyrebird, the Platypus. They are Australian animals. They symbolize that the coins are Australian.
Who is on the reverse of Australian coins?
All Australian decimal coins feature Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. The reverse of general circulation (non-commemorative) Australian Coins feature the following – The 20 cent, 50 cent and One Dollar coins are often used as Commemoratives and will have non-standard reverse designs in some years.
Is the Royal Australian Mint losing money on the fifty cent coin?
Although it was rumoured that the Mint had lost money striking the fifty cent, all the metal used in the manufacture of the 36.5 million coins produced was purchased before the price rises.
The reverse of the 50 cent coin features the Australian Coat of Arms. Designed by Stuart Devlin, it has had some important changes made to it since 1966. The original 50 cent coin was made of 80% silver and 20% copper. It was circular in shape, and had a milled edge. It weighed 13.28 grams and was 31.65 millimetres in diameter.
What do you do with a 50 cent coin?
Many eventually spend their new find, but for some it would go straight into a collectors album. One piece of collectible Australian currency is the 50 cent coin. Over the years, commemorating different events through the release of special coins has been common practice.
Although it was rumoured that the Mint had lost money striking the fifty cent, all the metal used in the manufacture of the 36.5 million coins produced was purchased before the price rises.
Is the fifty cent coin legal tender in Australia?
Five-cent, ten-cent, twenty-cent, and fifty-cent coins are legal tender up to the sum of $5. As with all coins of Australia, the reigning monarch features on the obverse. Only Elizabeth II has been monarch during the coin’s existence.
